Andy Farrell has demanded England rise to the second of their five cup finals when they face Italy at Twickenham on Saturday.
Farrell believes the 21-16 victory over Wales last weekend has generated a "feelgood factor" and the Red Rose have since been installed as new favourites to win a first RBS 6 Nations title under Stuart Lancaster.
Success against Italy will set-up a mouth-watering showdown against Ireland in Dublin on March 1 and Farrell has urged England to continue building momentum in their pursuit of silverware.
"In the Six Nations you have to make sure that mentally and emotionally you're in the right place to put your plan into action on the field," backs coach Farrell said.
"That's important against Italy as well because let's not forget that it was a cup final for everyone last weekend. To win a Championship you have five of those cup finals.
"Earlier in the week we showed the players what they did well against Wales and what they didn't do well.
"Mentally we brought them down a bit and then built them back up again. Hopefully against Italy we'll be at that cup final stage again.
"We need to back up the Wales performance. There's a feel-good factor around the rugby country at this moment in time and we have to back up that performance by making everyone feel the same way again."
ENGLAND: M Brown; A Watson, J Joseph, L Burrell, J May; G Ford, B Youngs; J Marler, D Hartley , D Cole, D Attwood, G Kruis, J Haskell, C Robshaw (capt), B Vunipola. Reps: T Youngs, M Vunipola, K Brookes, N Easter, T Croft, R Wigglesworth, D Cipriani, B Twelvetrees.
ITALY: L McLean; L Sarto, L Morisi, A Masi, G Venditti; K Haimona, E Gori; A De Marchi, L Ghiraldini, M Castrogiovanni, G Biagi, M Bortolami, F Minto, M Bergamasco, S Parisse (capt). Reps: A Manici, M Aguero, D Chistolini, J Furno, S Vunisa, G Palazzani , T Allan, G Bisegni.
Referee: John Lacey (Ireland).
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